Abstract: A composition comprising at least 93% (w/w) neopentasilane; and a method of preparing neopentasilane, the method comprising treating a tetrakis-(trihalosilyl)silane with diisobutylaluminum hydride.

Abstract: A composition comprising at lest 93% (w/w) neopentasilane; and a method of preparing neopentasilane, the method comprising treating a tetrakis-(trihalosilyl)silane with diisobutylaluminum hydride.

Abstract: Alkenylalkoxysilanes such as allyltrimethoxysilane can be made by reacting the corresponding monoalkenyldichlorosilane, i.e., allyldichlorosilane, with a monohydroxy alcohols, i.e., methyl alcohol. No catalyst is required and the reactions can be carried out at room temperature.

Abstract: Alkenylalkoxysilanes such as allyltrimethoxysilane can be made by reacting the corresponding monoalkenyldichlorosilane, i.e., allyldichlorosilane, with a monohydroxy alcohols, i.e., methyl alcohol. No catalyst is required and the reactions can be carried out at room temperature.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a method of preparing a silacycloalkane, comprising the steps of (A) adding a substituted silacycloalkane having the formula: wherein X1 is —F, —Cl, —Br, or —OR1 and X2 is X1 or H, wherein R1 is C1-C8 hydrocarbyl, and n is 1, 2, or 3, to a suspension of lithium aluminum hydride in a glycol diether at a temperature not greater than 50° C. to form a mixture, wherein the glycol diether consists essentially of a linear arrangement of oxyalkylene units having formulae independently selected from —OCH2CH2—, —OCH2CH(CH3)—, and —OCH2CH(CH2CH3)—, and end-groups having the formulae —R2 and —OR2, wherein each R2 is independently selected from C1-C8 alkyl, phenyl, and C1-C8 alkyl-substituted phenyl, provided the glycol diether has a normal boiling point of at least 85° C. and a viscosity not greater than 3000 mm2/s at 25° C.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of tertiary-hydrocarbylsilyl compounds. The method comprises contacting a mixture comprising diethylene glycol dibutyl ether, and a Grignard reagent described by formula RMgX with a silicon compound described by formula R.sup.1.sub.a SiX.sub.4-a, where R is a tertiary-hydrocarbyl group comprising four to about 20 carbon atoms, each R.sup.1 is an independently selected substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group comprising one to about 20 carbon atoms, each X is an independently selected halogen atom, and a is an integer with a value of zero to three, in the presence of an effective amount of a copper compound catalyst. The present invention provides a method for making sterically hindered organosilicon intermediates useful in the pharmaceutical industry.